Randall C. Kohl is on the Music Faculty of the Universidad Veracruzana (UV) in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and a member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National System of Researchers). He received his BA in Music from the University of California at Santa Cruz, an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Hawai´i at Manoa and a Doctorate in History and Regional Studies from the UV. He has published widely on the son jarocho tradition, the late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century Mexican guitarist Octaviano Yáñez and Hawaiian slack key guitar.

• Contents: Introduction – An analysis and interpretation of photographic representations of son jarocho – The business of son jarocho– A musical analysis of selected son jarocho repertoire – A textual analysis of selected son jarocho repertoire – Select son jarocho participants: Past and present – The Movimiento Jaranero – Analysis of selected themes – Conclusions and additional comments.

Randall C. Kohl is on the Music Faculty of the Universidad Veracruzana (UV) in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and a member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National System of Researchers). He received his BA in Music from the University of California at Santa Cruz, an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Hawai´i at Manoa and a Doctorate in History and Regional Studies from the UV. He has published widely on the son jarocho tradition, the late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century Mexican guitarist Octaviano Yáñez and Hawaiian slack key guitar.

• Contents: Introduction – An analysis and interpretation of photographic representations of son jarocho – The business of son jarocho– A musical analysis of selected son jarocho repertoire – A textual analysis of selected son jarocho repertoire – Select son jarocho participants: Past and present – The Movimiento Jaranero – Analysis of selected themes – Conclusions and additional comments.

Randall C. Kohl is on the Music Faculty of the Universidad Veracruzana (UV) in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and a member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National System of Researchers). He received his BA in Music from the University of California at Santa Cruz, an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Hawai´i at Manoa and a Doctorate in History and Regional Studies from the UV. He has published widely on the son jarocho tradition, the late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century Mexican guitarist Octaviano Yáñez and Hawaiian slack key guitar.

• Contents: Introduction – An analysis and interpretation of photographic representations of son jarocho – The business of son jarocho– A musical analysis of selected son jarocho repertoire – A textual analysis of selected son jarocho repertoire – Select son jarocho participants: Past and present – The Movimiento Jaranero – Analysis of selected themes – Conclusions and additional comments.